sob(_at_)harvard(_dot_)edu wrote:
one example from section 3.1 -
Although the approval of the ISOC President/CEO or ISOC Board of
Trustees may be required for some contracts, their review should be
limited to protecting ISOC's liabilities and financial stability.
[many other messages]
allison wrote:
After the BCP has the full support and approval of the IETF community,
the IASA and IAOC will be formed, and it will be part of the ISOC
organization. I'm concerned that what you're suggesting here is just
not good organizational practice. At the end of the day, functional
differentiation is necessary. The IAOC and IASA have a task: the work
needed for IETF operations to be accomplished, which include the
full review and decision-making on RFPs at each cycle. The ISOC "folks"
(BoT) has its own manifold tasks. IAOC and IASA do not perform the ISOC BoT's
tasks, and the ISOC BoT should not peform IAOC/IASA tasks. It's not a
matter of ruling out informal discussions, but of making
organizational clarity. We're working toward a shared specification
that the ISOC President/CEO and BoT representatives have voting
representation in the RFP decisions, and that is the organizational
structure. Saying that there doesn't need to be an bright line, that
there doesn't need to be functional differentiation, is contrary to
our goals in working on all this structure in the first place.
How about this instead:
Although the approval of the ISOC President/CEO or ISOC Board of
Trustees may be required for some contracts, in order to provide
a single point of focus in support of the IASA, primary responsibility
for the evaluation, review, and negotiation of contracts and other
IETF administrative and support agreements shall rest with the IAOC.
This provides a simple metric ("primary responsibility for the
evaluation, review and negotiation ....") on which corner cases
that arise in the future can be judged.
Regards,
Carl
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